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As home insurers pull out of climate-threatened regions around the United States, Why It Matters examines the emerging risks for homeowners, and the U.S. economy.
Accelerating risks and damage from climate change are spurring private insurers in the United States to limit coverage in a growing number of areas, thus imposing mounting stress on local communities and straining the country’s overall economic health.
Ukraine
If Western allies fail to send Ukraine the weapons it needs, the odds of the war dragging on increase, posing a terrible cost to Ukraine, Russia, and the wider world.
Six graphics illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.
India
Canada’s stunning allegations of an India-directed plot to kill Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar has stirred frictions between two major democracies and raised questions about India’s global actions to protect its interests.
External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar of India discusses India-U.S. relations, India’s G-20 presidency, and diplomacy in the current era of rapid technological evolution.
Immigration and Migration
Temporary protected status has long been used as a humanitarian solution for migrants who are unable to return home safely, but efforts to give them a path to citizenship have reignited the debate around the U.S. immigration policy.
The Western Hemisphere needs regional solutions to make the most of the migration wave it faces.
United Nations
The world’s nations are lagging woefully behind in meeting targets for achieving gender equality by 2030, but a new round of initiatives has stirred hope of progress.
CFR mourns the passing of James F. Hoge Jr., a transformative former editor of Foreign Affairs and CFR member of forty-eight years.
Events
Panelists assess the current state of human rights in the Middle East, along with the impact of U.S foreign policy on human rights, regional partnerships, and geopolitical dynamics.
Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Technology and foreign policy experts discuss the paradoxical nature of artificial intelligence’s extraordinary growth opportunities and its significant potential for disruption and risk, as well as the necessity of establishing new governance mechanisms to both control and harness this potentially defining technology.
Ian Johnson discusses his new book, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, which describes how some of China’s best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.
Expert Spotlight
Robert E. Rubin
Chairman Emeritus; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Henri J. Barkey
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Christopher M. Tuttle
Senior Fellow and Director of the Renewing America Initiative
Congresses and Parliaments Polls and Public Opinion Elections and Voting
Sheila A. Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies
Alice C. Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies
Stephen Biddle
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
United States Politics and Government Polls and Public Opinion
Max Boot
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
John B. Bellinger III
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
Brad W. Setser
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow
Esther Brimmer
James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Linda Robinson
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Robert D. Blackwill
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Gideon Rose
Mary and David Boies Distinguished Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Wars and Conflict Middle East and North Africa Southeast Asia
Ann Norris
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Paul B. Stares
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
Matthew C. Waxman
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy
Richard Haass
President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
Stephen Sestanovich
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Jennifer Hillman
Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy
Ebenezer Obadare
Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
Martin S. Indyk
Lowy Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-Middle East Diplomacy
Ray Takeyh
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Shannon K. O'Neil
Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies
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Abortion Law: Global Comparisons
Mexico recently decriminalized abortion, continuing a global trend of expanding permissions for the procedure. See how countries worldwide approach the issue.
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